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COMMENTS:
Voted : Yes, a lot
From what I have seen, those who are now critical of the USA, were critical of the USA before Bush became President.
Voted : Yes, a lot
Clinton rocked. But Bush Snr and that senile old f*cker Reagan helped to generate a lot of hate and ridicule towards the US.
Oh, and Johnson and Nixon.
Voted : Yes, but not as much
Sure some existed. But will you really tell me that the amount and intensity hasn't increased significantly?!?
There has always been a lot of anti-Americanism. The cold war masked a lot of this sentiment. When you have an economy that is larger than the next three combined and an unparalleled military and are the only (or one of two during the cold war days), people are going to resent you no matter what. The US has an unfortunate history of propping up dictators that later get toppled. The people of that country then hate America for supporting that dictator. There has certainly been violent anti-Americanism before, all you need to do is look at the Iran hostage crisis and the stuff that happened in South America. An example:
Senate Historical Office's Vice Presidents of the United States 1789-1993, discussing then-Vice President Nixon's 1958 tour of South America:
When he set off for South America in 1958, he anticipated an uneventful tour that would merely distract him from his attempts to talk the administration into cutting taxes at home. He was unprepared for the vehemence of the anti-American demonstrations he would encounter from those opposing U.S. policy toward Latin America. In Peru, Nixon was blocked from visiting San Marcos University by a crowd of demonstrators chanting "Go Home Nixon!" He was met in Venezuela by hostile crowds that spat at him as he left his plane. In the capital, Caracas, the scene turned violent. A mob surrounded his car and began rocking it back and forth, trying to turn it over and chanting "Death to Nixon." Protected by only twelve Secret Service agents, the procession was forced to wait for the Venezuelan military to clear a path of escape. But by that time, the car had been nearly demolished and the vice president had seen his fill of South America. President Eisenhower sent a naval squadron to the Venezuelan coast in case they needed to rescue the vice president, but Nixon quietly left the country the next day.
I don't remember that happening recently.
Cathexis- "Sure some existed. But will you really tell me that the amount and intensity hasn't increased significantly?!?"
- In some countries, maybe a little bit. But for the most part, most anti-Americans now were anti-American before George W. Bush took office. From my point of view, little has changed.
Voted : Yes, but not as much
There has always been anti-Americanism. It just seems that in the last five years, more Americans are feeling this way too.
You can easily find anti-Americanism in the writings of 18th and 19th century europe. It's always been around. It's just a matter of how much they hate us at any given time.
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